In reply to a post by zyborg47:

What do you mean iOS-ification of System settings? I presume it is more lie IOS,

Just before you moved to Mac, the operating system was called OS X and the setting screen was called System Preferences and was similar in look to an older Windows Control Panel.

Now it looks almost identical to iPad settings (as two columns, iPhone has one); and they renamed it “System Settings” as the iPhone and iPad call it simply “Settings”. They gave it the same icon too.

When you see how many iPhones (hundreds of millions) and iPads (high tens of millions) Apple sells a year, it is no surprise the mac (low tens of millions) design evolves to look more like their more successful products.

It's just giving everything a consistent look and feel, with consistent terminology.

One other good thing is much impoirved integration between reminders and calendar apps. It makes my calendar desktop widget actually useful...

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Just before you moved to Mac, the operating system was called OS X and the setting screen was called System Preferences and was similar in look to an older Windows Control Panel.

Now it looks almost identical to iPad settings (as two columns, iPhone has one); and they renamed it “System Settings” as the iPhone and iPad call it simply “Settings”. They gave it the same icon too.

When you see how many iPhones (hundreds of millions) and iPads (high tens of millions) Apple sells a year, it is no surprise the mac (low tens of millions) design evolves to look more like their more successful products.

I know what it was called and I know about System Preferences, I did use a Mac before I had mine, but not that much.

In reply to a post by ian_c:

It's just giving everything a consistent look and feel, with consistent terminology.

One other good thing is much impoirved integration between reminders and calendar apps. It makes my calendar desktop widget actually useful...

Not sure about that, at first I thought it may be good, but may put too much into the calendar, I presume that can be disabled? Not that I use reminders that often as I will only get them on my Mac.
i will normally use Alexa as that will also send notifications to my phone, something my Mac won't

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Anyone installed it yet? I have, not yet, seen a few posts in different places of people having problems, so if i do decide to install it will not be for a while.
Also depends on how Apple do their AI

Been running it on various machines now since release and generally it’s been fine, though have had issues with some Dell software (no surprises there I guess) waiting on a Sequoia compatible version of Dell Display Manager which is coming out shortly. Quite why Dell can’t be bothered to test during beta is anyone’s guess, but their stated policy is to wait for final release OS before they update their own.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Been running it on various machines now since release and generally it’s been fine, though have had issues with some Dell software (no surprises there I guess) waiting on a Sequoia compatible version of Dell Display Manager which is coming out shortly. Quite why Dell can’t be bothered to test during beta is anyone’s guess, but their stated policy is to wait for final release OS before they update their own.

My colleagues whom prefer their IT fruit flavoured whom upgrade are all spitting; many issues with different vendor VPN clients, and some even found outbound SSH not working. 15.0.1 did help a bit, our ad-hoc chat channels are advising people to wait for 15.1 if they've not yet upgraded. Unless you buy a new Mac !

Fruit flavoured IT. Love it James.

Yes I'm not super surprised with VPN client issues. Although I run ZeroTier that's been fine. Touch wood. Anecdotally I believe they've altered a lot more under the bonnet with Sequoia than other annual releases recently, and it shows.

There still is nothing show-stoppery here. Just some gripes with Dell being slow to the party.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Yes I'm not super surprised with VPN client issues. Although I run ZeroTier that's been fine. Touch wood. Anecdotally I believe they've altered a lot more under the bonnet with Sequoia than other annual releases recently, and it shows.

Some third party vendors are unhappy as they worked with the betas and apparently Apple changed something at the last minute. Which is a) unsurprising from Apple, and b) unprofessional now that Apple hardware is popular in enterprise. It just sours the brand in the enterprise.

Yeah good point. Though who knows what their last minute motivations or reasons were.

I've been eagerly waiting for Microsoft to widely release the W11 24H2 update as there are several performance improvements with Windows 11 for ARM in the new release. Unfortunately they pulled the full release expected in September, but still possible to get it via Insider Programme, at least I managed to get an update for my ARM VM that way. My ThinkPad is still stubbornly stuck on 23H2 😅

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Yeah good point. Though who knows what their last minute motivations or reasons were.

It is a bit surprising.

I've been eagerly waiting for Microsoft to widely release the W11 24H2 update as there are several performance improvements with Windows 11 for ARM in the new release. Unfortunately they pulled the full release expected in September, but still possible to get it via Insider Programme, at least I managed to get an update for my ARM VM that way. My ThinkPad is still stubbornly stuck on 23H2 😅

My work laptop (Thinkpad) is on our internal early-adopter list, so I've got 24H2 on there, but there are issues with the Intel graphics driver trying to reinstall constantly, the same version, via WU. My personal Surface (Intel) has had no issue - as you'd hope. My Asus desktop still doesn't have any sign of 24H2.

At least MS doesn't have any issues delaying; unlike Apple that seems to always need to meet a pre-set date.